Long-haired Christchurch mountaineers John Glasgow and Peter Gough became the first people known to have scaled the 2000-m Caroline Face of Aoraki/Mt Cook. They declared it a ‘triumph for the hippies’.
Aoraki
Main image: Painting of Aoraki/Mt Cook, 1846
Ngāi Tahu's sacred maunga (mountain) Aoraki (Mt Cook) in 1846. Watercolour by Charles Heaphy